Exam 22: Population, urbanization, and Environment

The concept "zero population growth" refers to the level of reproduction that

Currently,about how much of the global population increase is taking place in low-income nations?

The University of Chicago's sociology department had an early focus on cities and urban life.

If you were studying countries with very low infant mortality,in which of the following global regions would you be most likely to look?

In medieval cities of Europe,what was found at the city's center?

Why is the gradual loss of the world's rainforests an important environmental concern?

The United States is a high-income country; therefore,we would expect population increase to result from which of the following?

Fecundity is a simple and useful way to measure population increase.

Fertility refers to

Which of the following nations would you expect to be most concerned about declining population?

In what year was half the U.S.population living in urban places for the first time?

Durkheim's concept of mechanical solidarity parallels Tönnies's concept of Gemeinschaft.

Which of the following statements expresses the "limits to growth" thesis?

Assume a country has a population of 400 million people and in a given year has 4 million births.What is this country's current crude birth rate?

People's movement out of a territory is called immigration.

In most poor nations of the world today,what is the average number of children born to a woman?

Which of the following four statements about migration is NOT true?

Thomas Robert Malthus claimed that

Georg Simmel claimed that urbanites are so interested in each other's lives that there is little privacy in cities.

Today,the three or four largest cities contain as many people as did the entire world some 12,000 years ago.